My Undesirable Friends: Last Air in Moscow (4-5)

Director: Julia Loktev

2025 / 125min / DCP

Loktev’s documentary ensemble drama of dissent continues as the Russian war machine begins its march into Ukraine, with the staffers at the independent channel TV Rain struggling to single-handedly combat the vast conspiracy of misinformation and bald-faced propaganda employed by the state to manufacture compliance in the populace. “One of the year’s most towering achievements… Brilliant, riveting, vital, devastating… Perhaps the most essential investment of time you can make in a movie theater this year… A shattering portrayal of an authoritarian government using misinformation, isolation and war to control its citizens.” —The New York Times

Q&A with director Julia Lokteva and protagonists Anna Nemzer and Ksenia (Ksyusha) Mironova on Tuesday, January 13th

Distributor: Argot Pictures